Baltimore Science Cafe: Decoding Mosquito Attraction to Combat Zika with Dr. Conor McMeniman
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Thursday, August 25th 2016
7:30 pm
Red Emma's
Please join us in welcoming the Baltimore Science Cafe back to Red Emma'sMosquitoes rely on their exquisitely tuned sense
of smell to hunt humans. But how does the mosquito nose know you are
close by? Dr Conor McMeniman, a neurobiologist at the Johns Hopkins
Malaria Research Institute has spent much of his career trying to decode
the molecular mechanics of the mosquito olfactory system, and the
chemistry of human scent. He will present an overview of his smell
research on the Zika mosquito Aedes aegypti, and how his research group
is hacking the inner workings of the mosquito brain to combat Zika and
other mosquito-borne diseases. For more information about Project Bridge: http://www.projbridge.com/ For information about the Baltimore Brain Festival: http://www.brainfest.org/ Sponsored by the JHU-SOM GSA, JHU Alumni Association, and JHU Department of Neuroscience